Constitution of the United States: Difference between revisions

Sanford Levinson wrote in 2006 that it has been the most difficult constitution in the world to amend since the fall of Yugoslavia.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Liptak |first=Adam |date=February 15, 2012 |title='We the People' Loses Appeal With People Around the World - NYTimes.com |website=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/us/we-the-people-loses-appeal-with-people-around-the-world.html |access-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215225846/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/us/we-the-people-loses-appeal-with-people-around-the-world.html |archive-date=February 15, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Millhiser |first=Ian |date=2024-07-29 |title=Biden's new Supreme Court reform proposals are mostly useless |url=https://www.vox.com/scotus/363557/supreme-court-biden-kamala-harris-reform-term-limits-ethics |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=Vox |language=en-US}}</ref> Levitsky and Ziblatt argue that the US Constitution is the most difficult in the world to amend, and that this helps explain why the US still has so many undemocratic institutions that most or all other democracies have reformed, directly allowing significant [[democratic backsliding in the United States]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Levitsky |first1=Steven |title=Tyranny of the Minority: why American democracy reached the breaking point |last2=Ziblatt |first2=Daniel |date=2023 |publisher=Crown |isbn=978-0-593-44307-1 |edition= |location=New York |chapter=Chapter 7}}</ref>